{"product_id":"othon-friesz-44-high-resolution-images","title":"Othon Friesz 44 High Resolution Images","description":"\u003cp\u003eOthon Friesz painted coastal towns, harbours and landscapes with bold colour and vigorous brushwork. His work moves between the daring palette of Fauvism and a more measured approach, offering an engaging view of French painting in the early twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis download features 44 hi-res images, in JPEG format, by the French artist Othon Friesz.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe images are all 600dpi and range in size from 3060 pixels wide\/tall to 6740 pixels wide\/tall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pictures are out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use them in whatever way you’d like, including commercial use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAchille-Émile Othon Friesz (1879-1949)\u003c\/strong\u003e, who later called himself Othon Friesz, a native of Le Havre, was a French artist of the Fauvist movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOthon Friesz was born in Le Havre, the son of a long line of shipbuilders and sea captains. He went to school in his native city. It was while he was at the Lycée that he met his lifelong friend Raoul Dufy. He and Dufy studied at the Le Havre School of Fine Arts in 1895-96 and then went to Paris together for further study. In Paris, Friesz met Henri Matisse, Albert Marquet, and Georges Rouault. Like them, he rebelled against the academic teaching of Bonnat and became a member of the Fauves, exhibiting with them in 1907. The following year, Friesz returned to Normandy and to a much more traditional style of painting, since he had discovered that his personal goals in painting were firmly rooted in the past. He opened his own studio in 1912 and taught until 1914 at which time he joined the army for the duration of the war. He resumed living in Paris in 1919 and remained there, except for brief trips to Toulon and the Jura Mountains, until his death in 1949.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring the last thirty years of his life, he painted in a style completely removed from that of his earlier colleagues and contemporaries. Having abandoned the lively arabesques and brilliant colours of his Fauve years, Friesz returned to the more sober palette he had learned in Le Havre from his professor Charles Lhuillier and to an early admiration for Poussin, Chardin, and Corot. He painted in a manner that respected Cézanne's ideas of logical composition, simple tonality, solidity of volume, and distinct separation of planes. A faint baroque flavour adds vigour to his (most well-known) landscapes, still lifes, and figure paintings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFriesz died in Paris. He is buried in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris. His pupils included the painters Marthe Rakine and Heini Waser.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead our \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/friesz-othon\" title=\"Othon Friesz biography\"\u003eOthon Friesz biography\u003c\/a\u003e for more about the artist.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Digital Download - 44 images","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53168241672522,"sku":null,"price":4.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/7965\/7290\/files\/Othon_Friesz_44_High_Resolution_Images.jpg?v=1761777452","url":"https:\/\/www.publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/products\/othon-friesz-44-high-resolution-images","provider":"Public Domain Image Library","version":"1.0","type":"link"}